News 2017 January 13

Initial EU ship recycling list shows clear need for global mind-set

Regional maritime piracy agreement broadened to cover other illicit maritime activity

Royal IHC wins several contracts at the end of 2016

State Duma passed in the first reading the bill on short-sea shipping in Russia

CMA CGM updates Terminal Handling Charge in Ust-Luga and Kaliningrad, Russia

NIBULON continues implementing its shipbuilding programme as part of cooperation with EIB

NOVATEK’s marketable hydrocarbons production totaled 537.9 mln boe in 2016, up 3.1% Y-o-Y

Throughput of Russian seaports up 6.7% to 721.9 mln t in 2016

PSA International throughput up to 67.63 mln TEUs in 2016

Sakhalin Energy and Gazprom Marketing & Trading sign long-term LNG tanker time-charter agreement

Additional cranes have been installed at Incheon New Port

DeloPorts terminals handled 6.0 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, up 10%, year-on-year

Secretary-General speaks on ballast water

Fosmax LNG to sell access capacities at the Fos Cavaou LNG terminal

New Zealand ratifies Ballast Water Management Convention

Ferus Smit launches Nb. 426 ‘Arklow Castle’

FSBI Baltic Sea Ports Administration congratulates Novoship with the fiftieth anniversary!

FSUE Rosmorport appoints Yevgeny Moroz as Director of its Vanino Branch (photo)

Philly Shipyard lays keel for fourth product tanker for Kinder Morgan

Port of Riga posts cargo volume of 37.1 million tons in 2016

Brent Crude futures price up 1.12% to $56.06, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.13% to $53.08

BC Ferries' first of three LNG-fueled ferries arrived in British Columbia

First monopile loaded onto sea-going vessel at Sif’s Maasvlakte 2 location

Bunker prices are flat at the port of Saint-Petersburg, Russia (graph)

Baltic Dry Index down to 892 points